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Слушать(AI)Along the Sun-Drenched Roadside
Along the sun-drenched roadside, from the greathollow half-treetrunk, which for generationshas been a trough, renewing in itselfan inch or two of rain,
I satisfymy thirst: taking the water's pristine coolnessinto my whole body through my wrists.
Drinking would be too powerful, too clear;but this unhurried gesture of restraintfills my whole consciousness with shining water.
Thus, if you came,
I could be satisfiedto let my hand rest lightly, for a moment,lightly, upon your shoulder or your breast.
Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is "widely recogn
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